Just bought the game. Crashes on startup every single time.

[Crunk]

I get a little window popping up asking me to pick my graphics quality and resolution, and after selecting to start thegame it just crashes no matter what settings I pick out. On windows 7 64bit with all up to date updates on a GTX970 and 12 gigs of ram. I have no idea what to do. Tried reinstalling several times and tried checking intregrity of game files. Everything seems fine but game will not work.

[Zed]

Greetings; I did some searching and it would seem the latest version (0.7.9) may be the cause of your issues per : https://forum.terratechgame.com/index.php?threads/0-7-9-repeated-crashes-seemingly-resolved-by-full-re-install.14995/

I would suggest posting this concern with additional information (specifically the output_log.txt and any autogenerated crash folders ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JOAUl14B0s )

In the mean time since the issue *might* be graphically related I can offer you two quick suggestions which might resolve the issue.

1) Try "opt-ing" into an older version such as 0.7.8 / 0.7.7 from the steam library "beta" menu

If this does not work for some reason try the multiplayer branch (odd suggestion but ultimately the current multiplayer build is based off of the stable "core" of the program code from a while ago and would determine if there was something fundamentally off regarding your hardware configuration (such as attempting to run Terratech using an embedded intel 4000 hd )

2) If you are still encountering difficulties my suggestion would be to uninstall Terratech via Steam , reboot your computer and then reinstall Terratech yet again, but this time going into your files manually and deleting your userdata/sav file as discussed regarding a resolution issue here : https://steamcommunity.com/app/285920/discussions/0/1621724915774915154/

Also, it is suggested that you do not attempt to change the game resolution / quality settings from the intial boot window and only make such changes after the game has successfully loaded and started a campaign / creative save as was discussed some time ago here: https://forum.terratechgame.com/index.php?threads/0-7-6-1-rerresolution-bug.12442/#post-77346

I look forward to your reply, hopefully these measures will resolve your difficulties.

[Crunk]

Okay, I tried a few things, and what ended up working was uninstalling, restarting my PC, reinstalling the game, and not touching the settings on the first popup screen. Seems to be working for now.

[Zed]

Glad to hear that at least some of the information provided was able to ameliorate the issue. IIRC the last time that my GT 650m was able to correctly specifiy the resolution in "TerraTech Configuration" launcher was either in 0.7.4 / 0.7.5 as documented above.

Since 0.7.7 I have merely left the default settings which tend to be 1920x1080 @ Fantastic and then set accordingly once my savegame has loaded (usually for the laptop it prefers 720p @ simplest since it is running a rather slow mobile i7)

If you have futher difficulties feel free to reply to this thread / post them directly upon the official forum ( https://forum.terratechgame.com/index.php ) which is usually the best and fastest way to engender a response from a member of the delelopment team.

Additionally, once you are ready to begin crafting with "parseen / rammet" feel free to check out some of the fabrication tech's I've designed ( https://forum.terratechgame.com/index.php?threads/community-core-submit-archive.13774/#post-89521 ) along with consulting @ZeroGravitas's Crafting Guide. ( https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1191458767 )

[ZeroGravitas]

Hey, if you or any other play starts having these crashing on game startup issues, maybe the information helpfully provided in this new forum thread will help (changing some NVidia settings fixed the problem for someone): https://forum.terratechgame.com/index.php?threads/0-7-9-game-crash-on-startup-resolved.15482/

[Iboga]

I was having the same issue. Crash game at first launch.

DISABLE MSI Afterburner or Rivatuner Statistics !!
or anything with frametime monitoring.

Error code: Write to location 80004484 caused an access violation.

I can finally play the game :)

[ZeroGravitas]

Thanks for the information @itano. I hope it helps some others.

[Manu]

Originally posted by itano:

I was having the same issue. Crash game at first launch.

DISABLE MSI Afterburner or Rivatuner Statistics !!
or anything with frametime monitoring.

Error code: Write to location 80004484 caused an access violation.

I can finally play the game :)

How you'd do that?

[elyess007]

to fix the issue , all you have to do is just this :
set the game on fast graphics and hope that the authorise access appears before the game crashes , if that happens and you auhorise then it will solve the problem like how it did for me

[Xajar]

You just answered a 6 year question that was already solved lmao.